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BALTIC LANGUAGE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European
Synonyms:
Baltic; Baltic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Baltic language" is a kind of...):
Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Baltic language"):
Old Prussian (a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
Lithuanian (the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
Latvian; Lettish (the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)
